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Twitter users react to recent increase in shootings

Posted by Lindsey Drakert on 11/08/09 • Categorized as Crime, North America

After the shooting at Ford Hood, Texas Thursday that killed 13 people and the shooting in Orlando, Florida that killed at least one and injured several others Friday, Twitter users are taking notice of the increase in gun violence.

Twitterers, especially those in Florida, posted about how gun violence keeps getting closer to their homes:

  1. Alex Rueda
    alexthewheel (Winter Park, FL) @philososaurus def dude today there was a shooting in downtown orlando -_- s’getting too close to home now. it was work related too. 06 Nov 2009 from mobile web
  2. SummerLynn
    SummerLynn (Orlando, FL) Shooting in Orlando. Such an awful thing happened here today. I am 10 miles from it and safe. My heart goes out to the victims here today. 06 Nov 2009 from web
  3. Jackie Hall
    NewBodyCoach (Orlando, FL) Not even the vacation capital is immune from mass shootings. Prayers go to all the victoms of downtown Orlando shooting. 06 Nov 2009 from Echofon
  4. yariel rivera
    yaya27 (Orlando, FL) Omg wats up with all this shooting!! What’s wrong with America?? I think da world is ending!! 06 Nov 2009 from Twitterrific

Some Twitterers reflected on what this gun violence means:

  1. Joe Alexander
    Joecool169 (Undisclosed) Anybody else think men are predisposed to gun violence after this weeks killings? 07 Nov 2009 from txt
  2. Jeremy Burns
    jeremeets (Central New York) 2nd round of gun violence in as many days…sad…current gun legislation does not work…maybe we should focus on that 06 Nov 2009 from web

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